In 1920s, a regulatory television has determined the fundamental characteristic of the competitive terrain. In 1940s, the transition of radio provides an illustrative parallel. When television has entered the home, radio has redefined itself in programming and in where how listeners have used it. This leads to the Telecommunication Act. Telecommunications Act of 1996 is also called the “Telecomm Act”. It is historically significant because it is the first comprehensive rewrite of American’s communication laws since the adoption of the Communication Act of 1934. Telecommunications Act is the first significant revision of federal communication law in which telephony problem occupy the central stage. The regularization of television created three different evolutions, which are the “Network era”, the era of “Multi-channel”, and the “Post-network” era. The “network era” took placed in between the early 1950s to the early 1980s. It was characterized by the adaptation of radio- network modes of content creation, distribution, advertising, and audience measurement to the context of the “new televisual medium”. It is considered to be free because of the low cost to obtain programming Chanel. At the same time, the medium becomes the primary cultural institution because its low cost “net work era” is …show more content…
During the “Multi-channel transition”, the narrowcasting became common on television, which required an adjustment in theory about the mass nature of the medium. In the mid 2000s, the intermittent threat of mandating a la carte cable service suggested that the regulator could fix the playing field for the industry at any time. By the beginning of 2007, regulators did not establish a clear principle that reflected the substantial industrial adjustment